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more about #science more comments → Navin R Johnson: No one is even talking about the caterpillar who seems to be flying just fine. Irony. more » icy_one: "Fuckassery" has entered my lexicon. more » valkilmerisawful: THAT was hilarious and makes me want to walk around for the rest of the day just acting all wacked out and saying "f*ckassery". Now this little mexic... more » BeyondtheTech: Ok, now we need to have a woman give birth in space. It's gonna be a messy delivery and that baby's not going to know which way is up, literally. more » Hello Mister Walrus: Now, pitiful astronauts will suffer the wrath of the mighty Monarch!! more » jepzilla: Screw human spaceflight. NASA's new mandate should be to confuse every species of life on this planet. more » En0s1: I know folks who are genuinely terrified of butterflies. I'm almost certain that walking butterflies will ensure they not sleep for a month. more » Gundem: And this won't effect their skin material and cause future disorders/ Voles = rough skin Jelly = no skin more » OMG! Ponies!: Space butterflies are lamer than a lame lame-o. Team Spacebat more » Die Fledermaus: This reminds me of a certain whale and the planet magrathea. more » bobdobbs: Ok, great. Where's the super-monkey-collider that NASA's been promising us? more » Digo: Gravity's point of view: I didn't get to go on the trip, I stayed home. I heard the butterflies missed me though. more » FriarNurgle: Taking these results into consideration, we have concluded all flightless birds are from space. more » OCEntertainment: Free-Floating Chrysalis == my new band name. more » dry-roasted-peanuts: Someone, do this now with pigs. I DEMAND GLOW IN THE DARK BACON! more » -
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The Space Butterflies Stop Flying
The horrifying space butterflies have stopped flying, and now they are just walking around their cage, having a few space beers, and smoking a few astroturf joints. And man, they were really pissed off. More » -
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Prairie Vole Embryos Injected With Glowing Jellyfish Gene Grow Up To Glow Too
No, they're not chewed-up pieces of gum, quit salivating. These are the world's first transgenic prairie voles, which were injected with a jellyfish gene as embryos, resulting in glowing baby voles. More » -
#madrobotics
A Robot Who Can Be Your Real-Life Avatar
One of the dreams of robotics has been to create a machine that can act as a remote version of its operator - like the movie Surrogates, only cool. Now a group of Korean engineers have brought us closer to this goal. [io9] -
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The Mostest Amazing Scientific Photos of the Year
Popular Science has a massive gallery of the year's most fantastic scientific images, and they're pretty incredible. Here's our favorites. More » -
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13 More Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Approved for US Research
For the first time in 8 years, US researchers will have access to 13 new lines of embryonic stem cells. The lines meet new ethical requirements and were created from leftover fertility clinic embryos using private money. [BBC and GettyImages] -
#brains
50 Hour Livestream of Patient H.M.'s Brain Being Sliced
Studying Henry Gustav Molaison, more commonly known as Patient H.M., and his memory impairments has revolutionized our understanding of human memory organization. Researchers will analyze his brain next, but first they're slicing it up in a 50 hour long livestream. More » -
#lhc
LHC Knocked Out By FutureBird-Caused Power Failure
Someone or something out there doesn't want the Large Hadron Collider to spin up to full speed. Either that, or it's the most complex piece of machinery ever built so kinks are expected. But that's a less fun explanation. More » -
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Strechable, Flexible, Twistable Antennas
Traditional copper antennas are rigid yet delicate. And in the age when almost every gadget we use requires some sort of antenna, they're a lousy solution. Luckily, new tech is on its way. More » -
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Butterflies Fly in Space for the First Time to Creep the Beheyzeus Out of Me
By the Holy circumcised foreskin of baby Jesus! What in the name of all that is creepy and filmed by Roger Corman is this? Larvae hatching and butterflies flying in space? If I were an astronaut, I'd be freaking out. More » -
#food
Scientists Grow Pork Meat in a Lab, Annoying PETA People To Disappear Soon
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully synthesized some real-deal pork meat without having to kill any pigs. Sure, it's not quite edible yet, but they predict you'll be eating labmeat in a mere five years. More » -
#opticalcomputing
Rainbow Trapped for First Time, Using Convex Lens and Glass
Baltimore citizens aren't just dealing drugs and installing wiretaps, some of them are busy using convex lenses to trap rainbows, which could be put to good use with optical computing—making hardware faster! Stronger! More powerful! More » -
#science
The Chemistry of Thanksgiving
Pop-up timers, mashed paper towels, rubber nipples, and stomach acid are no longer the big mysteries of Thanksgiving, because Diane Bunce, Ph.D., is here to explain them. And yes, she is wearing a pilgrim costume under that lab coat. More » -
#obama
Obama's Plan to Help Next Generation Science Geeks
Wow, this is great. The "Educate to Innovate" campaign will aim to improve U.S students' grounding in science, technology, engineering, and math education through $260 million in public-private partnerships, plus the first "National Lab Day" to update school science labs. More » -
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LHC First Particle Beams Collision Doesn't Obliterate World, Universe
Hey, we are alive! In the end we didn't need any escape pods: The Large Hadron Collider has smashed two particle beams together for the first time. However, the unknown is still ahead of us, as they ramp things up: More » -
#imagecache
Astronaut Self-Portrait
Some time during a six-hour space walk last week, astronaut Robert Satcher managed to capture this shot of himself...via himself. Today, the STS-129 will be completing their third and final space walk. [NASA] -
#science
Earth's Weather Like You Have Never Seen It Before
This video shows Earth's weather from August 17 to August 26, 2009. It also shows how beautiful this planet is, and how insignificant we are. It was created at a 7-kilometer resolution with NASA's GEOS-5 atmospheric general circulation model. More » -
#blockquote
OK, Now I'm Nervous About the Large Hadron Collider
I used to think that nothing would happen with the Large Hadron Collider. I even made fun of the nutters saying it's going to destroy the world. After reading CERN Director for Accelerators's latest statement, I'm not so sure: More » -
#giftguide
Gifts for Science Nerds Who Love To Experiment
Meteorites, microscopes, or mixing things to go boom. Your science nerd loves it all. Here are a couple of gift ideas for that space explorer, mad scientist, or engineer in your life. More » -
#largehadroncollider
Large Hadron Collider Circulating Particle Beams Again
No, it's not going to destroy the world. But the collection of photos of the LHC at the Big Picture is a great reminder that this might be the most impressive piece of machinery humanity has ever built. [Big Picture] -
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Creating a Tornado Inside a Soap Bubble
I'm not quite sure what exactly is going on here, me being somewhat of a dullard and all, but I do know one thing: this there is one neat video. [Random Good Stuff]
